For a long time, we saw these ruins as failures. But what if the unfinished is the future? A future that is never fully built, always in construction, always inviting participation.
In the 1960s and 70s, Latin American futurism was radical. Architects like Lina Bo Bardi and Oscar Niemeyer built concrete poems of possibility. Writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar bent time like a Mobius strip. The future was a left-wing project: land reform, industrialization, and sovereignty.
Welcome back to the Latino future. You’ve been here all along.
Then came the twin shocks: the (the “Lost Decade”) and the Washington Consensus of the 1990s . The future was privatized. The state, which had been the architect of tomorrow, became the obstacle. As Carlos Fuentes once lamented, Latin America became a region condemned to “repeat its mistakes because it has no memory of its successes.”
We didn’t just lose the future. We sold it. To “volver al futuro,” we must dig. The future is not ahead; it is buried beneath the asphalt of the present.
rejects both. It is embodied in the new municipalism of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico) or Renca (Chile), where local governments are experimenting with climate resilience currencies and participatory AI. It is seen in Argentina’s curious relationship with crypto and the fintech boom born from the ashes of 2001’s corralito .
We must leave behind the (the caudillo ), whether of the left or right. The future is horizontal or it is not at all.
We must leave behind the . The future cannot be built by digging up the earth for lithium to power Teslas. The future must be post-extractive : circular, bio-inspired, and small-scale.
This is a future that is : not the end of history, but the reopening of history. It is pragmatic, messy, and local. It asks: How do we build a power grid that doesn’t collapse? How do we educate children for jobs that don’t exist yet, but which won’t be automated away because they are relational ? How do we build a democracy that works in the face of narcoviolence and climate collapse? Part V: The Uncomfortable Questions – What We Must Leave Behind Returning to the future requires sacrifice. We cannot take everything with us.
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For a long time, we saw these ruins as failures. But what if the unfinished is the future? A future that is never fully built, always in construction, always inviting participation.
In the 1960s and 70s, Latin American futurism was radical. Architects like Lina Bo Bardi and Oscar Niemeyer built concrete poems of possibility. Writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar bent time like a Mobius strip. The future was a left-wing project: land reform, industrialization, and sovereignty.
Welcome back to the Latino future. You’ve been here all along.
Then came the twin shocks: the (the “Lost Decade”) and the Washington Consensus of the 1990s . The future was privatized. The state, which had been the architect of tomorrow, became the obstacle. As Carlos Fuentes once lamented, Latin America became a region condemned to “repeat its mistakes because it has no memory of its successes.”
We didn’t just lose the future. We sold it. To “volver al futuro,” we must dig. The future is not ahead; it is buried beneath the asphalt of the present.
rejects both. It is embodied in the new municipalism of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico) or Renca (Chile), where local governments are experimenting with climate resilience currencies and participatory AI. It is seen in Argentina’s curious relationship with crypto and the fintech boom born from the ashes of 2001’s corralito .
We must leave behind the (the caudillo ), whether of the left or right. The future is horizontal or it is not at all.
We must leave behind the . The future cannot be built by digging up the earth for lithium to power Teslas. The future must be post-extractive : circular, bio-inspired, and small-scale.
This is a future that is : not the end of history, but the reopening of history. It is pragmatic, messy, and local. It asks: How do we build a power grid that doesn’t collapse? How do we educate children for jobs that don’t exist yet, but which won’t be automated away because they are relational ? How do we build a democracy that works in the face of narcoviolence and climate collapse? Part V: The Uncomfortable Questions – What We Must Leave Behind Returning to the future requires sacrifice. We cannot take everything with us.
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